UN \u2018working on\u2019 maintaining presence in Lebanon in 2027
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\nThe United Nations announced Thursday it was \u201cworking on\u201d maintaining a presence in Lebanon once the mandate for its UNIFIL peacekeeping force expires at the end of the year, Al Arabiya reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of the post-UNIFIL, we\u2019re currently in the process of working on these options,\u201d said Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, with the Lebanese government \u201cvery clear that they would want to keep a UN presence.\u201d<\/p>\n
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has served as a peacekeeping force between Israel and Lebanon since 1978 but finds itself caught in the crossfire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n
UNIFIL comprises nearly 8,200 troops from 47 countries. It has lost five troops in recent days: three Indonesian and two French.<\/p>\n
Lacroix told a press conference in Geneva that any future uniformed UN presence in southern Lebanon would have to be decided upon by the Security Council in New York.<\/p>\n
But, he said there were \u201ca number of capacities…. which we have been providing\u201d that Beirut would want to keep, such as monitoring, reporting, observing, and liaising.<\/p>\n
\u201cA durable solution to the problem will have to take into account the security needs of Lebanon and of Israel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UN \u2018working on\u2019 maintaining presence in Lebanon in 2027 —————————— The United Nations announced Thursday it was \u201cworking on\u201d maintaining a presence in Lebanon once the mandate for its UNIFIL peacekeeping force expires at the end of the year, Al Arabiya reported. \u201cIn terms of the post-UNIFIL, we\u2019re currently in the process of working on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lebanon"],"yoast_head":"\n